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All chapters of Foundations and Futures include lesson plans and curricular tools that are designed for high school students and grounded in ethnic studies pedagogy. Feel free to search our repository of primary sources and material that helps bring Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and experiences into the classroom.
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Carved wood panel from Yogyakarta
Growing up in Indonesia, Maya was surrounded by art through her mother’s work with artisans. This carved wood panel from Yogyakarta, artist unknown, belonged to her mother as part of her microfinance projects. It is now in Maya’s personal collection. (Source: Maya Soetoro Collection)
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Indonesian phrase: gotong royong
Watch Maya discuss one of her favorite Indonesian phrases: gotong royong.
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Maya discusses living within diverse cultures and faiths
Watch Maya discuss living within diverse cultures and faiths.
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Taman Sari’s ruins
As a child in the 1970s, Maya played in the Taman Sari’s ruins. This photograph of the Water Castle was taken in a much earlier time, in 1910 during the Dutch colonial era.
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Video Maya on her childhood in Indonesia and feeling safe in “collective care”
Watch Maya discuss her childhood in Indonesia and the safety of “collective care.”
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Map of Asia Indonesia
Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world by population. The physical span of the archipelago is roughly equivalent to the length of the United States.
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Maya Soetoro and Family
Maya as a baby with her family, ca. 1970. From left to right: Lolo Soetoro (Maya’s father), Ann (her mother), Maya (on her mother’s lap), and Barack Obama (her older brother).
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Ann holding Maya as a newborn
Ann holding Maya as a newborn. They stand next to Soetoro’s grandmother, Djoeminah, whom Maya knew as Eyang Supoyo, ca. 1970.
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Ann Dunham Soetoro and Lolo Soetoro
Ann Dunham Soetoro (left) and Lolo Soetoro at the East-West Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where they originally met as graduate students. This picture likely was taken during a trip back to Hawaiʻi in 1972.
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Maya Soetoro Introduction
A brief introduction to Maya Soetoro
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Module 5: A Modern Chinese American Woman
Mae Ngai
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Chapter Overview: Samoans in the United States
Lana Lopesi
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Chapter Overview: Bangladeshi Americans
Nazli Kibria, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Fariba S. Alam, and Sharbari Ahmed
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Module 1: Bangladeshi Migration and Settlement in the US
Nazli Kibria, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Fariba S. Alam, and Sharbari Ahmed
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Bangladeshi Americans
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Module 2: Bangladeshi Americans and the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
Elora Halim Chowdhury, Fariba S. Alam, Nazli Kibria, Sharbari Ahmed
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Bangladeshi Americans
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Chapter Overview: Chinese Americans and the Making of American History
Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit Shelton
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Patsy Takemoto Mink: Fierce and Fearless
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink
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Module 1: Overview
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink
